PRESIDENT XI VISIT SHOWS THE POTENTIAL FOR A NEW OUTLOOK IN THINKING
RELATIONS REBOOT: Partners we should be, not rivals, President Xi told President Trump During his joint press conference at the White House with President Donald Trump on Sep. 24, Chinese President Xi Jinping gave the following formulation: While cooperation between the U.S. and China “may not solve every problem in the world,” without it, “it […]
SEPTEMBER 11,TRUTH, AND NUCLEAR WAR
The 171st meeting of the International Peace Coalition, which convened on the 25th anniversary of the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, took up the vital question: How must one think in order to envision a pathway out of the crisis facing the world today? If one is to resist the temptation of giving up all […]
HISTORY IS BEING MADE, FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN SEEING IT
Chinese President Xi Jinping, speaking Sep. 1 at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, described to attendees the framework of the new world currently taking shape. The SCO’s “biggest achievement is that it has steadily grown into a new type of regional cooperation organization…. Its most valuable spiritual asset is that it pioneered, […]
THE DANGER OF TRUMP’S ‘VICTORY’
On August 18 the President of the United States posted an image of the Strait of Hormuz captioned “New U.S. Territory.” The same day, he announced that “there are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” despite having claimed the opposite for the recent days and weeks, and […]
SPARKS ARE FLYING, YET NO ONE IS STEERING
The question posed by the last twenty-four hours is not whether Donald Trump or Iran is “winning” the war, or whether the latest actions represent an escalation or a walking backward. Both questions assume that someone is choosing. What is underway is a broader dynamic propelling events as if automatically—a condition in which what has […]
WORLD WAR 111 ‘IN PIECES’ OR NEW ARCHITECTURE IN EARNEST
Like a drunken Pete Hegseth stumbling back from a post-football game frat party, the world lurched, almost uncontrollably, toward a new and dangerous phase this week. After Ukraine struck an Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian Sea on July 25, killing one sailor and injuring others, these two conflicts threatened to morph into something new […]
THREATS TO BLACK SEA GRAIN EXPORTS GROW, AS RUSSIA RETALIATES AGAINST UKRAINIAN PORTS
Shipping via the Don River-Sea of Azov-Black Sea route, which handles roughly a quarter of Russia’s grain exports, as EIR reported yesterday, remains suspended in the wake of the Kiev regime’s nine-day drone-strike campaign against commercial shipping in the Sea of Azov. In retaliation, Russia fired a major missile barrage the night of July 15-16, […]
THE SPARK OF REASON OR THE SPARK OF WAR? WAR MADNESS THREATENS THE FATE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
With the return of fighting between the United States and Iran, and the seeming collapse of any prospect of negotiations, the world has come again to the edge of the abyss. “We currently have no plans for negotiations and are focused on defense,” Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said July 15. This was backed […]
ON THE HIGHWAY TO WORLD WAR
Conflicts in both Iran and Ukraine have evolved over the recent days and weeks. Schiller Institute founder, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, summarized the strategic situation as follows in a discussion with associates: “The world situation remains one where the overall trajectory is towards World War III. And while the focus tends to shift between the Middle East […]
WESTERN MEDIA BLARING ABOUT ‘VIBE SHIFT’ IN UKRAINE
As Ukraine, with massive Western logistical and other assistance, has increasingly used long-range drones to target civilian infrastructure in Russia, Western war hawks are attempting to utilize it for a public relations campaign which argues that Ukraine is turning the tide, and therefore more weapons and money is needed. The Financial Times set the tone […]
FIVE DAYS REMAIN TO MOBILIZE FOR MAY 26 BREAKTHROUGH
Less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump announced that he would delay a new military campaign against Iran, Helga Zepp-LaRouche appeared on state broadcaster Pakistan TV with an urgent call to action. This pause in military activity is a reflection of how much is at stake, she noted, with many countries, including Pakistan, “extremely […]
ACTING ON POTENTIAL
Russian Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters on May 9 that “intensified” contact between Washington and Moscow over the recent days had led to the ceasefire agreement brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump the day before. Clearly, the danger represented by Kiev’s threat to attack Moscow’s May 9 Victory Day parade and Russia’s promise of […]